A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots.
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- GAY IENDLY HAMAM - DAVUTPASA ISKELE HAMAMI
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- THE BT GAY IENDLY HAMMAM ISTANBUL - ISTANBUL FOM
GAY IENDLY HAMAM - DAVUTPASA ISKELE HAMAMI
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Meanwhile the exclively male Savoy Turkish Baths at 92 Jermyn Street remaed open, ed they remaed open all night long and not surprisgly soon they beme popular wh gay men not least bee of the ‘bachelor chambers nnected to the bath’ that uld be ‘let at morate rentals’.
After the war, an attempt to survive as ongog ncerns, the remag Turkish baths London, and pecially the Savoy, started to subtly enurage their gay clientele while at the same time subdug their ternal policg. However the baths had always had a b of a gay reputatn and was to the Savoy Turkish baths that Christopher Isherwood and WH Aun took the 24 year old Benjam Brten 1937.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
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The Turkish baths were was one of the few plac a closeted gay actor, of which would be fair to say there would have been que a few, uld feel reasonable safe om the police. The closeted gay actor Rock Hudson would also often vis the Jermyn Street baths perhaps after tryg the var after-shav available the Dunhill shop across the road (which is still there). His hastily arranged marriage to Phyllis Gat the secretary of his agent 1955 was a direct rult of Confintial magaze threateng to expose his hidn gay liftyle.
Ironilly, however, wasn’t until homosexualy was legalised that raids on the baths beme more mon. The New London Spy, a rather self-ncly trendy gui book for London published the late sixti, wrote about the remag Turkish baths London (sentially they meant the Savoy Jermyn Street which of urse was jt down the road om Picdilly Circ – a pick-up lotn known gay parlance at the time as the ‘Wheel of Fortune”):.
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